2009
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Sauder Graduates its First Executive MBA in Health Care Class
The first Executive MBA in Health Care degrees were conferred at UBC on Thursday, November 26, 2009. Eighteen students from the pioneering cohort of the EMBA program received their degrees and enjoyed a celebratory lunch afterward. Sauder School of Business Dean Dan Muzyka spoke to the group, congratulating them on their hard work and perseverance, [...]
Prostate Cancer Treatment Research Team Wins Best Paper Award
A team of researchers from the Sauder School of Business and the BC Cancer Agency was the recipients of the 2009 William Pierskalla Best Paper Award, which recognizes research excellence in the field of health care management science. The paper, titled “When to Treat Prostate Cancer Patients Based on Their PSA Dynamics”, presents a “novel [...]
Operations Research Project puts New Tool for Survival Analysis in Surgeon’s Hands
In the life and death world of transplant survival prediction, surgeons need easy access to a variety of information about both an organ donor and potential recipients to make accurate decisions about patient risk and organ allocation. Yet, interpreting the complex statistics and math models that present these data can challenge the most expert physician, [...]
Optimal Search with Application to Minimally Invasive Surgery
Ghassemi, F., Shechter, S.M., Nguan, C.Y.C., & Puterman, M.L. Optimal Search with Application to Minimally Invasive Surgery.
Channeling Attachment: How Physician Strategy and Perceived Decision-Making Authority Alter the Influence of Physician Attachment on Performance
David R. Hekman, Ph.D Assistant Professor of Management, Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee presents: Channeling Attachment: How Physician Strategy and Perceived Decision-Making Authority Alter the Influence of Physician Attachment on Performance Abstract: Why do U.S. physician employees vary in the degree to which they adhere to clinical guidelines or prescribe MRIs? We [...]
Apply now for EMBA in Healthcare
Applications are now being accepted for the new class of Executive MBA students. We are looking for a small number of highly motivated people who are managers in any part of the health system or who are managers in another sector and wish to acquire skills that will allow them to transfer into the health [...]
Workshop on Discrete Event Simulation Modeling in Health Care 2009
Saturday November 14, 2009 – Sunday November 15, 2009 University of British Columbia | Vancouver, BC Health care managers faced with making decisions under uncertainty are increasingly using the analytical tool of discrete-event simulation (DES). DES models allow decision makers to test “what-if” scenarios and evaluate a variety of outcomes prior to implementing any changes [...]
Patient focus in ACU research study could help cut wait time by 70 %
Dr. Martin L. Puterman, Research Director of the CHCM and Professor of Operations Research at the Sauder School of Business, knows that protecting the human face of health care – the patient – can be one of the biggest challenges managers face in improving efficiencies. So when the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) approached Dr. Puterman, [...]
Digital Health Care
CHCM partnered with the Management Information Systems division of the Sauder School of Business to present a seminar on May 29th titled “Critical Issues in Achieving a Digital Health Care Industry”, by Dr. Richard Pico. Dr. Pico is a Clinical Professor in the UBC Department of Psychiatry and Chair of Psychiatry for Providence Health Care. [...]
Critical Issues in Achieving a Digital Health Care Industry
Dr. Richard Pico, MD, PhD, Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UBC, Department of Psychiatry, Providence Health Care,Senior Advisor, Advanced Information Technology and Clinical Transformation, Provincial Health Services Authority, presents: Critical Issues in Achieving a Digital Health Care Industry Sponsored by CHCM and the Management Information Systems division of the Sauder School of Business. May 29, [...]
